Care assistant jobs in Thurrock

Skills for Care recorded 2,100 filled care worker posts in Thurrock in 2024/25, out of 2,200 care worker posts in total. Around 100 of those care worker posts in Thurrock were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 5.5% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Thurrock.

The care worker role is 52.5% of the 4,000 filled adult social care posts in Thurrock. Turnover in the care worker role in Thurrock ran at 18.7%. New starters were 22.6% of care worker posts in Thurrock over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Thurrock ranks 11th of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 4,500 filled care worker posts, against 2,100 in Thurrock. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Thurrock workforce, the same release records 175 filled senior care worker posts, 125 filled community support and outreach posts and 50 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Thurrock was £12.02 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Thurrock only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Thurrock earn a median of £40,623 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Thurrock at £25,900, £14,723 below it.